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In February 2019, Charlie Bird wrote a guest opinion piece for Deseret News in which he revealed two parts of his identity: he was the Cosmo the Cougar who starred in viral dance videos with Brigham Young University’s Cougarettes, and he was gay.

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Jewish Reporter Describes "Exciting" Experience in the Oakland Temple, Compares It to Ancient Temples in Jerusalem

By LDS Living

With renovations complete for the Oakland California Temple, this temple is open to the public for a limited time—from May 11 to June 1. The opportunity to enter the building typically restricted for those outside our faith prompted a press event which included Jewish journalist David A.M. Wilensky, among others. As part of the event, the group of journalists took a tour of the temple before its upcoming re-dedication on June 16.

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Latter-day Saint golfer Tony Finau wins back-to-back tournaments, breaks scoring record

By Haley Lundberg

Finau has now captured three PGA Tour Titles in just under a year, and in a video interview after his latest victory, Finau got emotional dedicating the win to his son.

Mormons and Baptists compete for converts

Jake Pulsipher's first day as a working missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began at 6:30 a.m. with prayer and exercise, followed by breakfast and study. Then he put on a black suit, white shirt, and red tie, along with his official name tag, and headed out to knock on doors and tell people about Jesus. In doing so, he became the latest of 20,000 Mormon missionaries in the United States.

Obama and Romney shun confrontation on religion

Maybe the economy is a political black hole, sucking every other issue into an impossibly dense void. Maybe Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are just private, cautious men by nature.

'The Mormon Question' not new to Idaho politics

Mormons have a complicated political history in Idaho. Though members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were among the first permanent white settlers in the territory, they couldn’t vote, hold office or serve on juries.

Romney, Mormonism and money

My Sunday column — written before the Paul Ryan pick, but still relevant in its aftermath — argues that Mitt Romney’s understandable reluctance to talk about his Mormon faith has cut him off from what would otherwise be a very natural part of his campaign narrative, both in personal and philosophical terms. My argument runs counter to some of the arguments in Adam Gopnik’s tour d’horizon of Mormonism in a recent issue of the New Yorker, and particularly this passage:

Returned Mormon missionaries in sports garner national attention

A pair of returned Mormon missionaries were recently featured in the national media. Tyler Haws, a shooting guard for the BYU Cougars, was the subject of an article by Anna Katherine Clemmons on ESPN.com Thursday.

Interfaith Friends Bring Music and Energy to Historic Mormon Tabernacle

“Many Faiths, One Family” was the theme of the Interfaith Musical Tribute, which was held in the historic Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City Sunday, 26 February 2012. The free concert was under the direction of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable and hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.